How To Use Wardroom In A Sentence

  • At least until recently, the penalty for any officer on the P&O line caught wearing a made-up bow-tie was to buy champagne for the entire wardroom.
  • When she arrived in sunny Gibraltar, Caroline was greeted by HMS York's Commanding Officer, Commander Paul Porter, before she sat down to a traditional lunch in the wardroom.
  • While Robinson provides some historical framework to the ship's operations, the strength of the book is the insight it provides into the daily life of a destroyer wardroom during this extraordinary time.
  • During the most recent deployment, a wardroom mess dinner was held on the flight deck, involving guests from all three services.
  • They stuck to the best traditions and gathered together into naval societies, organizations and wardrooms.
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  • His views and attitudes were formed in naval wardrooms and are more usually representative of public opinion than the constipated gripings of his critics on the left.
  • Some years later Navy regulations were changed to permit wardroom and steerage officers to voluntarily form their own wine mess.
  • Then on Saturday, the curacoa came in — same commission, with all our old friends; and on Sunday, as already mentioned, Austin and I went down to service and had lunch afterwards in the wardroom. Vailima Letters
  • The Pelican had five officers on board, and the wardroom was sufficient to serve as a conference area as well as a dining space.
  • It was shortly after dinner time, so the wardroom had a dozen officers still lounging after their meals.
  • Little by little, the infection spread, as it always does, from the wardroom to the cabin, and "goodfellowship" was the watchword of the night. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
  • Lancaster is also the home of Sunny the parrot, the Royal Navy's sole sea-going mascot, who lives in the wardroom.
  • This started the ball rolling and before too long the ‘Esther Williams Trophy’ had become a sought after prize between wardrooms.
  • Billings summoned his staff, the air wing commander, and all the squadron commanders to his wardroom. BALANCE OF POWER
  • Parrots in the wardroom, Great Danes leading errant sailors home, prone penguins, reindeer wandering around submarines.
  • From the flight deck of the 4,100 tonne frigate the patient was taken to the wardroom where the ship's doctor and medics began emergency treatment including transfusions and oxygen therapy.
  • What had once been luxuries in the Wardroom of H. M. S. Victory had become standard items of health and hygiene to the sailors on the gun decks of H. M. S. Warrior after 1860.
  • But the commodore leading the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training exercise in Southeast Asia decided to take the Thai born reservist out of the kitchen and put him in the wardroom.
  • The area proposed to be leased includes the Old Naval Academy - serving as offices and a wardroom - Anchor and Stoney Lanes, Short Row and the Block Mills.
  • You prescribe brandy for them, and I'll end up with a wardroom of closet drunks.
  • Besides her cabin, usually shared with another staff-member, the pursers had their own wardroom where they could relax and share the trials and tribulations of the day.
  • His views and attitudes were formed in naval wardrooms and are more usually representative of public opinion than the constipated gripings of his critics on the left.
  • Alarm bells have begun ringing in ship wardrooms and naval headquarters on both coasts.
  • Shortly before noon on Jan. 23, Bucher sat down to a lunch of meatloaf, succotash, mashed potatoes and gravy when Law, the ship's quartermaster, called down to the wardroom.
  • We looked after it in the wardroom, fed it and it gradually got its strength back.
  • Some of those hamburgers and pork chops get consumed in the officers' wardroom, more in the chiefs' mess.
  • We dropped off the two other pilots, who had been in the back of the H - 46, so they could relax in the wardroom.
  • Later in the afternoon, he had lunch in the wardroom (officer's galley), talked to Nimitz crew members in the hangar bay and posed for pictures.
  • After the war wardrooms on warships became the place where young officers learned to love their profession and upgraded their naval and general culture.
  • I noticed the wardroom as a class, you might say, was manoeuvrin '_en masse_, an' then come the order to cockbill the yards. Traffics and Discoveries

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